65 Valiant Old school Dragcar

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65SignetSweden

65SignetSweden

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It`s about time I tell you what`s going on at my garage. This built begun 2 years ago and I`m 90% finish. The idea is to build it like a 60s street/drag car. The car was in bad shape when I bougth it, it had a volvo 260 front suspension that was heavy and extremly ugly. The upside was it had a 340 with a833 trans and 8 3/4 rear. Here are some pics.
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I found this front end at the local junkyard.

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Very impressive...That looks awesome. How hard was it to get the new front into alignment with the rest of the chassis?

Great work!

Thank You!

OldMoparsRule
 
Nice work. Just goes to show anything can be fixed if you really want to.
 
Now I am no frame expert, but aren't those front rails a bit undersize????
Seriously....looks like a really fun project!!
slanted66
 
Really nice work there.

Love to see a plan come together.

You guys can really work the torches across the pond.
 
Looking very nice.
can't wait to see this early A on the street.
Nice work!! Keep us posted.
 
This is a pic of it before he started restoring it.The black thing was my car for 3 years and i now its a gm :puke:
(65singetsweden is my relative )

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Happy New Year everybody!! Some more pics from underneath. I removed (believe it or not) 33pounds of old and nasty undercoating. Took me like two weeks. I will never, never do that again!

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Here it`s painted and ready for assembly.
 
damnnnnnnnn!

this is what will be happening to the barracuda im working on way down the road.

i want to basically frame off restore the car, and make it a top notch race car. but i got alot of time to think about that one...and make some plans haha.

it looks great man! keep up the good work!

happy new year!!
 
Looks like you have lots of hours into your project, with excellent results. Keep us up to date. Howard
 
Thanks for the replies :toothy5: The plan is to get it finished sometime this spring. I`ve been working on it off and on for about 1 1/2 year and now it`s almost ready for the first startup. Here`s more pictures of the front end.

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A bunch of rearend pics.

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Spec: Relocation kit, 4.30 with Suregrip, Pinion snubber, Superstock leaf springs (002 003) along with P4529516 Dragracing shocks and urethane bushings.
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